Interpol in Indonesia to assist identification of QZ8501 victims

Interpol on Wednesday (Jan 14) visited AirAsia's Crisis Centre in Surabaya, East Java, to support the multi-national Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team that has been tasked to identify the bodies...

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India: Legislative sanction required for DNA data bank of unidentified bodies

The Centre has told Supreme Court that "legislative sanction" is required for establishment of a DNA profiles data bank which will help to identify the dead bodies which are unidentified. Filing...

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Ten dead as Texas prison bus collides with train

At least 10 people have been killed after a bus carrying prisoners lost control on an icy motorway and collided with a train in Texas, officials say. Ector County Sheriff Mark Donaldson said the...

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Sindh High Court urges to complete DNA identification of bus accident victims expeditiously

The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed the Sindh chief secretary on Wednesday to ensure DNA identification of the bus accident victims expeditiously. SHC Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar, who headed a division...

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100 bodies recovered from Ganga, DNA samples collected

Curiosity is brewing with recovery of 50 more bodies from river Ganga in Unnao on Wednesday, taking the number of such recoveries over the last few days to 100 and prompting the Centre to ask Uttar...

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QZ8501: Officials face challenges in identifying recovered bodies

Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) officials are facing several challenges in identifying the bodies recovered from AirAsia QZ8501. One of the issues is incomplete ante-mortem data such as fingerprints...

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